Thanks@guru267 for debunking this myth. The lie has been repeated so many times it is unbelievable. Ati kenya's economy is robust while europe is collapsing. The largest banking group in africa is the standard bank(stanbic). A while back their CEO was saying that their contribution to the parent was negligible; in his own words "it gets lost in translation"

We look neither East nor West. We look forward.
- Kwame Nkurumah!

You didnt answer my original question, you just danced around it with irrelevant stats. Question was you want them to stay so that they can milk us and pay taxes? This is not a popularity contest, just answer the question directly, your irrelevant stats only amuse people like Mathenge. I dont know where Economics 101 fits into this, these companies are in Kenya because they are making profits. If they are forced to leave ( unlikely) someone else will reap those profits,unless you are implying that Kenyan companies are not capable of paying taxes, in which case thats a question of enforcement. Stop being so blindwashed by western propaganda, you would make more sense if you argued that sanctions will slow down FDI flows but taxes? And who said we have to import clothes? How will sanctions affect how I send money home? I hope you know that I can easily send an ATM card to someone in Kenya, and incurr a $3 charge everytime they withdraw money from Kenya, so how exactly will money flows be affected? Dont just spew irrelevant rhetoric!!

I always say that as long as those laws that were crafted by the colonial government that up to date help cater for these multinational companies in Kenya are abolished or rather changed, then sanctions shouldn't be a big deal because there are lots of ways to make money. Example, BAT monopoly, its not that we ( I ) can't produce and sell our cigarettes but if that law was amended to give us the opportunity to do business, you can only imagine where we would be especially if you take into consideration that we are not a welfare nation although we are trapped into their ploys with their foreign aid.

Note: Am only giving an example using BAT so for those who are morally conservative on the issue

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17297056

"The law was actually drafted by us but the Government is to be congratulated on its wise actions": British American Tobacco and public policy in Kenya.

On intellectual property ownership, there is a book titled Armed Madhouse, authored by Greg Palast which is about the war in Iraq and how they say democracy democracy for Iraq while undoing or redoing the laws according to their own interests.


Now, this is from Kenya Industrial Property Institute and its what I call BULLSHIT!!!!

"No person resident in Kenya must, without written authority granted by the Managing Director, file or cause to be filed outside Kenya, an application for a patent for invention, unless an application for a patent for the same invention has been filed with the Institute not less than six weeks before the filing of the application outside Kenya.

A person who files or causes to be filed an application for the grant of a patent in contravention of this is liable on conviction, to a fine not exceeding twenty thousand shillings, or to an imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years, or to both".

http://www.kipi.go.ke/in...road-by-kenya-residents

Are you kidding me?? Me to ask the shitty govt of Kenya for permission when the idea is mine?? And you wonder why, after paying thousands of shillings to educate your children in computer science for the last two to four years, why their ideas/innovations are used by the likes of Safaricom, HP (Correct me if am wrong but am thinking HP put their headquarters in Kenya)etc while they are being paid nuts or the govt uses it for its own selfish use or decides to sell the idea.

One more thing on the issue of patents relating to living matter.

To be continued.

@murchr I'm a little confused!

What does LSE have to do with the British government??

Why was there a lot of distaste in the relationship LSE had with Gaddafi's son??